Louis Leterrier (The Takedown, Grimsby, Now You See Me) directs 2026's The Last House. And oh yeah, he did the last Fast & Furious flick (Fast X). With "House", Leterrier takes a fetching premise (being ensnared) and runs with it, blurring the lines between fast-cutting dramedy, sitcom folly, and polarizing, sci-fi horror. His look is purple and prismatic. His zoom shots are zooming. "But we are safe." You think so chief? You really think so?
The Last House, yeah it's a cinematic marathon not a sprint, a 110-minute vehicle with kvetching characters and a thin diegesis that seems stretched out to 3 hours. Torrential rain and sealed up doors and food rationing and aliens oh my! "Go wait in the car." As if we could my optimistic moviegoer. As if we could.
Starring the likes of Greta Lee, Emma Ho, and Wagner Moura and taking place in Seattle, Washington (but shot in England, huh?), "House" chronicles a family of four, confined to their home with no way out. Unlock the doors? Fat chance. Break through the windows? Yeah right. Go through the chimney? Said family could but decide not to. Drive the car through the garage door? Uh, only if you want to get a concussion. Go through the underground sewers? Um, yikers.
With The Last House, you have to imagine 2007's The Mist without the events taking place in a grocery store or 2021's Girl in the Basement without you know, a basement or last year's Brick but not involving some government-conspired wall. Did you get all that? Good. So OK, watch "House" to see how it concludes but know that certain parts of it are zapped of dramatic momentum. The pic, well it feels like something Alex Garland would make if he was in between cosmic projects on the low. Stone "house".
Written by Jesse Burleson
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